Friday, March 14, 2008
NCAA Basketball in earnest now
The Madness of March is underway. The NCAA Division I college basketball tournament is like the old Indiana High School tournament, every school in Division I theoretically has a chance to win. These days all the leagues, save for the Ivy League, have post-season conference tournaments. Win your conference tournament and you get to go dancing with the big boys and girls. This week everybody can dream of being George Mason.
There have already been tickets punched as CBS likes to say. Dreams are in the air, two first time ever schools have qualified for the final 64, Portland State and American University. For the more tradition laden programs this week is hardly a formality, winning your conference tournament is about bragging rights, and perhaps more importantly seeding.
Brackets unmade and unseen, the Clarion is sticking with the same Final Four we had four weeks ago. Georgetown, UCLA, UNC and a Big Ten team, from the trio of Purdue, Indiana and Mich State. We still like Georgetown as the national champion despite the presence of national player of the year candidates and more All-Americans on the other squads.
Word to the wise tonight, in the ACC tournament, Duke, be careful, don't sleep on Georgia Tech.
Labels: college basketball, Predictions, sports
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Duke fell asleep for a few minutes at the start of the second half, and let Georgia Tech close from behind 20, all the way down to 2, before waking up and finishin'em off.
Big Ten Player of the Year, D.J. White, couldn't carry the other loafing, overrated, bunch of bums who start for the Indiana Hoosiers to a 1st round Big Ten tourney win. Minnesota overcame White's 23 pts and 13 boards, and his last minute heroics with an unbelieveable!! last second Laettner-esqe shot of their own.
And out on the west coast, despite beating USC, UCLA lost super defensive stopper and key hustling plugger, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, to a serious ankle sprain. Youch. His return is crucial to their NCAA tournament hopes.
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Duke fell asleep for a few minutes at the start of the second half, and let Georgia Tech close from behind 20, all the way down to 2, before waking up and finishin'em off.
Big Ten Player of the Year, D.J. White, couldn't carry the other loafing, overrated, bunch of bums who start for the Indiana Hoosiers to a 1st round Big Ten tourney win. Minnesota overcame White's 23 pts and 13 boards, and his last minute heroics with an unbelieveable!! last second Laettner-esqe shot of their own.
And out on the west coast, despite beating USC, UCLA lost super defensive stopper and key hustling plugger, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, to a serious ankle sprain. Youch. His return is crucial to their NCAA tournament hopes.
